Eliza,
take whichever pattern pleases you best. Whoever lives to see this
republic forsake her moral and literary institutions, will behold her
liberties prostrated. Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the
world, is the enemy of God.
[5] The second person singular of _do_, when used as a principal
verb, is spelled with an _e_; thus, "What thou _doest_, do quickly;"
but when employed as an auxiliary, the _e_ should be omitted; as,
"_Dost_ thou not _behold_ a rock with its head of heath?"
NOTE. The nominative case is frequently placed after the verb, and
the objective case, before the verb that governs it. _Whom_, in
every sentence except one, _house, modesty, book, hat, pen, him_,
the third _what_ and _which_, the relative part of the first _two
whats_, are all in the _objective_ case, and governed by the several
verbs that follow them. See RULE 16, and NOTE 1. _Tree_ is nom.
after is, according to RULE 21. Thing, the antecedent part of
_whatever_, is nom. to "fortifies;" _which_, the relative part, is
nom. to "purifies." _Nothing_ is governed by _do_, and _poem_, by
_have_, understood.
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